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Who owns /home/vaughn? Does vaughn:vaughn own /home/vaughn and all its
files recursively? Also, what are /home/vaughn's perms?
Always check the attributes/permissions first.

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:34, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello again,
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> Having no luck on this, I decided just to create another user.   I did=20
> groupadd, useradd, passwd, and created the home direc, but I didn't copy =
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> any config files.  The graphical login succeeded on this one!  Then I tho=
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> I must have screwed up copying those files from the /root directory - so =
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> deleted them in the original "/home/vaughn" directory and tried again.  S=
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> won't log in!  It's no longer an urgent problem, just a puzzling one: why=
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> it work in one case and not the other?  Also, I checked the kdmrc file an=
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> discovered that there is indeed an option to prevent root from logging in=
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> graphically - which is what I figured had happened - but it wasn't set!  =
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> there was some other funny stuff going on around here.
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> Regards,
> Vaughn
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> On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:51, you wrote:
> > Hello all...
> > I'm just a mass of problems this week.   The old hard drive on my SuSE
> > system died, and I'm trying to bring it up on another system.  This tim=
e
> > for some reason it didn't prompt me to add a user.  It come up with the
> > graphical login, and not having created a user, I tried to log in as ro=
ot -
> > wouldn't allow it.  So I did ctrl-alt-F2 and logged in as root in text
> > mode.    I added the group "vaughn" and the user "vaughn" and the direc=
tory
> > /home/vaughn.  I also did a password for my new user, and verified that
> > there was a shell set there (thanks, Hans.)  Then I copied the director=
ies
> > from /etc/skel and the config files from the .root directory.  So it lo=
oks
> > like I have a viable home directory.  I logged out and tested logging i=
n as
> > "vaughn" in text mode; it worked.  Then I did ctrl-alt-F7 to get back t=
o
> > the graphical login.  I entered "vaughn" and my password; the response =
is
> > "Login Failed." I supposed there must be a security setting somewhere
> > that's prohibiting my login, but I'm not sure where it would be.  I loo=
ked
> > in /var/log for the authentication log, to look for my login failure in
> > hopes of seeing exactly what the problem was, but there was no such fil=
e,
> > and I couldn't find any messages related to a failed X login.  Can anyo=
ne
> > point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Vaughn Treude
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